American reacts to How Stupid are Americans? [part 2]

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[@OrontesRM]

The problem is not being ignorant. It's refusing the possibility that you're ignorant.

[@Muck006]

... "while having nukes" is the part that makes me afraid for the future. Us germans never had a nuke ... but the americans spend as much on "defense" as the next 26 countries combined.

[@laura749]

Well said!!

[@Sidistic_Atheist]

That would be the *"Dunning Kruger effect"* in action. (ie) To stupid to realise, how stupid they are"*

[@mladenkorstic]

@@Sidistic_Atheist i am somewhat offended that it has a German sounding name... It should be something like Donald- Biden effect

[@anitademmler9077]

Agreed. It's the inability to accept new information (which is contrary to their belief) which shows the real ignorance.

[@anikbrault4447]

The scariest part is that those people are allowed to carry guns in the US.

[@kitstratfull4606]

And vote!

[@mirandavantoledo6716]

And drive a car

[@lauramartin7675]

no the scary part is they REPRODUCE

[@bwana-ma-coo-bah425]

@@lauramartin7675 you all win.

[@putinwillhanginthemiddleof4866]

👍‼️🤣🤣🤣😂🤣🤣

[@tigersilberhannes9153]

Every train leaves for Asgard, if you step infront of it.

[@TTFerdinand]

I think the next stop would be Valhalla and then Asgard, but you'd need a special permit to enter Asgard, and the trains only go one way.

[@christinehorsley]

😂

[@Lewtable]

@@TTFerdinand For the modern day populace the first (and last) destination would 100% be Helheim as only warriors go to Valhalla, and even then, only half of them.

[@TTFerdinand]

@@Lewtable So there are even more stops on the way and someone saying something like "YOU SHALL NOT PASS!" for those who wish to ride further than they're supposed to. 👍

[@CB-pt1jq]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@bryanduncan1640]

An American once told me that we Europeans should be grateful to the USA for bringing democracy to us. I tried to point out that the Greeks had a hand in it some considerable time ago but they wouldn’t accept that it was anybody but them!

[@graemejohnson9025]

America is but a fart in the wind of democracy. Try to explain to them that they are all immigrants, except for the American Indian..

[@janak132]

I've had that one repeatedly. I know Ireland had a form of democracy really early on. Also prior to the kings even the Vikings made their rules in a local public fora they called Ting (Thing). For this reason the Norwegian assembly is called the Storting (Great Thing).

[@martinm8991]

Also the USA-bipartisan system is NOT a democracy. It just does not meet several basic criteria in the definition of the term democracy.

[@nickk6518]

Next time an American (other nationalities are available) makes a comment such as this, remind them that the US Constitution and legal system was/is heavily influenced by Magan Carta, signed between 40 English Barons and English King John at Runnymede, Surrey, on June 15, 1215. To quote The National Archives at Kew: The Fifth Amendment to the [American] Constitution ("no person shall . . . be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.") is a direct descendent of Magna Carta's guarantee of proceedings according to the "law of the land." I suppose it is unfortunate when certain persons think the law of the land doesn't apply to them because the judicial system is corrupt, etc, etc.

[@surfaceten510n]

@@janak132 You should check out the welsh they had a form of democracy way before England they even had women that were allowed to vote and own property.

[@Ceriva09]

.. I'm a german Soldier near Rammstein (a american military base in germany) when we had a discussion with an american soldier that arrived a few days before.. he wanted to carry his firearm to the city.. we told him that is not gonna happen and he randomly started shouting that its his constitutional right to carry his firearm wherever he goes .. It took 4 of his OWN friends that he is infact not in america and he has to abide to german law outside the base. He looked at them like a deer looking at your headlights.

[@user-gg8te8fz9z]

😂😂😂😂 oh mann ....

[@cedhome7945]

Should have let him get arrested......life lessons

[@manueltapia1859]

How does he became a soldier in first place??? They supposed take orders of their chief 😮. If he does that here in México will be surprised too

[@Ryan_Christopher]

“Soldier” or “Airman?” Ramstein is an Air Base not an Army Garrison. Every new airman to an OCONUS (Overseas from Continental United States) gets a briefing about local laws such as this.

[@Ceriva09]

@@Ryan_Christopher he said soldier himself but he might just have said so because its easier to understand. That happend during the Afghanistan war and i didnt think about asking about that back then 😆.

[@RickTheClipper]

A German tourist to the US here: People asked me where I come from, my answer was Germany They asked me: West Germany, East Germany, Nazigermany? As this happened more than once I changed my answer to Bavaria, and everybody was happy, they know a lot about Octoberfest but nothing about Europe

[@emprerking1684]

same here xD

[@onlyonewhyphy]

What.... The.... Fffffff

[@michakaikarsten7331]

Ja wer kennt sie nicht, die 3 Teile Deutschlands, Ost-, West-, Nazideutschland. Die stellen ja bekanntlich auch drei verschiedene Fußballnationalmannschaften

[@matsudoambition2509]

If imperial Germany and the HRE also were there they just lived in a modded civ 5 german civs only match XD

[@MyRegardsToTheDodo]

Back in the late 90s/early 2000s a classmate of mine spent a year in the US with some exchange program and visited a US high school. After she introduced herself and told the other students where she is from, she got asked about that "one party you have in Germany now", they meant the NSDAP.

[@davidholdsworth1141]

Rule Number 2: All Americans must attend foreign language courses - preferably English.

[@maryhurley5884]

😅😅😅

[@NormyTres]

I'm British, and one of my US friends had a daughter at a school where the kids had to choose a foreign language to learn on Rosetta Stone. She chose British English because she thought it would be easy. She gave up.

[@johnfoord9444]

@@NormyTres Yup all downhill from the letter "zee"

[@NormyTres]

@@johnfoord9444 Lol, yeah! I was the only Brit on a forum of US Americans and it was a whole new language to me! We spent a fair amount of time communicating in pictures and describing what we were talking about. We didn't know what we needed to explain until our wires got well and truly crossed e.g. 'I've been to the skip' was a British thing that caused confusion, and simple things like 'baseboards' (US) left me befuddled for a while (what *were* they cleaning?). Biscuits and gravy was another thing entirely. Totally disgusting concept in the UK until you realise it's just a difference in language!

[@johnfoord9444]

@@NormyTres Yes it's not that they are wrong but that language evolves independently in different areas. I do like their ability to completely invent new words, to describe something, from existing words. "The situation shows a lot of confoundification". lol. But biscuits and gravy - just wrong which ever way you look at it!

[@Boodain1]

An American started to guess where my accent was from. "Australian? New Zealand? South African?". I replied no to each guess he threw at me. He paused for a second puzzled. "Well you're not American. I can't think of any other countries that speak English" he exclaimed defeated. I took a pause to process his revelation before replying "I'm English". Makes me laugh just thinking about it.

[@UKreactions]

I'm surprised they guessed english as an american was once shocked the South Africans can speak the language

[@FluffysMum]

Cornish woman here, have been asked before if I am Australian! Well, we surf and have beaches here, but no Aussie accents 😂

[@bwana-ma-coo-bah425]

2016. Austria, Vienna. Standing out the front of a hotel having a cigarette. Car pulls up 2 MERICANS! get out. I say hello and a bit more. . He replies, "how yah goin there son, where ya from, Scotland? Me. Australia.

[@ProgressIsTheOnlyEvolution]

haha I have had a similar experience. I am really getting tired of talking to them, for most of them are not even humble enough to realize how stupid they are.

[@mrbaker1739]

Every time I go to Europe the locals try to guess where I from. The are always so so relieved when I say Australia and that I not American

[@Jeni10]

Asgard. It’s like asking what time the next ferry leaves for Atlantis.

[@rogu3rooster]

Or Hogwarts

[@A.k.-47-]

Bus to Olympus anyone?

[@jonmel]

You mean stargate

[@zetectic7968]

@@A.k.-47- At least Mount Olympus is a real place & a camera brand

[@Jeni10]

@@jonmel I miss Thor and Jack O’Neill!

[@paulagrave9516]

All countries have ignorant people. But the difference is, American people are so confident about knowing everything about a world most of them not even know where it is. Sad.

[@redelfshotthefood8213]

It's a human thing to put your foot in your mouth when you globetrot. I've done it. My learned behaviour was to dry out for a day before attempting anything more challenging than eating meals in the hotel. Not joking.

[@Kehvan]

Are you confident about that?

[@cedhome7945]

True I've met lots of them.....

[@gillberridge9854]

plus they are actually allowed out of the country to roam free - lol

[@KismetandKarma]

Wrong. These are tourists who are upper middle class or higher since majority of Americans don't have a passport and can't afford to travel.

[@tumbleweed860]

Kiwi husband was asked by an American how people in New Zealand and Australia don’t fall off the bottom of the earth. He told them we wear shoes with suction cups to stop us floating off into space.

[@criticalpet9886]

Oh yeah, the flat earth... I think if a lot of people in one country belief that the earth is flat, it's safe to say that their education system is pretty messed up.

[@Dragon-di1zg]

🤣perfect answer

[@Clodovicus]

Oh come on... s/he was definitely joking... it wasn't a serious question (I'm Italian, I'm impartial)

[@nswinoz3302]

Is that like we all ride kangaroos to school and they’re all over the place, (which they are)! I remember about five years ago a Wallaby (smaller type of kangaroo) got caught after crossing the Sydney harbour bridge. I remember thinking to myself, “well that denial of what it’s like living here went right out the window! “ NSW in Oz

[@steemlenn8797]

My anser woudl have been magnets in the shoes, or where do he thinks all the iron comes from?

[@hannesmayer3716]

"Germany is a tiny town in Canada." Well, Amerika is a little village in Lower Saxony, Germany. Yes, for real.

[@reginapopihn9853]

there`s a village called Aberdeen somewhere around there, too.

[@zymelin21]

yeah, it goes back to the nazi times where it was made so businesses could write on it "made in Amerika", after the nazis the commies kept it probly for the same reasons

[@KingJohnson1985]

@@reginapopihn9853 In Northgermany we also have "California" (small village) no joke

[@reginapopihn9853]

Ich hab mich schon als Kind gefragt, warum die Orte so heißen

[@hannesmayer3716]

@@reginapopihn9853 Auf der Wikipedia-Seite für Amerika, Niedersachsen, steht eine Erklärung.

[@joeaverage3444]

I'm German. An uneducated person in the Midwest once asked me, "So what kind of English do you guys speak in Germany? I mean, I've heard that you've all got your own languages, but is that for real?". It's like, no, we all speak English, we just put on our German to give American tourists a hard time. 🙄

[@JohnDoe-xz1mw]

maybe he is right, it would explain why i and my fellow austrians keep getting subtitles on german tv :P

[@gerdaschulze2333]

@@JohnDoe-xz1mw 😂😂😂

[@emiliajojo5703]

Geez you should have said the original one!!!before it was simplified.

[@MyRegardsToTheDodo]

@@JohnDoe-xz1mw Maybe if you take the marbles out of your mouth while speaking...

[@frankbrinkmann9742]

​@@JohnDoe-xz1mwIt's Quark, not Topfen.

[@philipmccarthy6175]

The scary thing is these people are so confident in their opinions despite being so ignorant .

[@D4RKBRU73]

there is a very thin line between arrogance and ignorance

[@panicplay1576]

Not knowing things is fine. People can learn. Refusing to accept that you might be wrong, however...

[@MazzaEliLi7406]

@@panicplay1576 Wilful ignorance is exasperating.

[@redelfshotthefood8213]

That's a common thing with dominance. Dominant people aren't challenged.

[@serinadelmar6012]

I love the way, he’s already lost it at the first comment 😂❤

[@DawnofInfo]

Small story from personal experience: Met some americans on a metal festival in germany and they told me that germany is weird because we drive on the left side. After telling them that this isn't true they doubled down and told me that i`m wrong. Also they arrived by car...

[@SatumangoTheGreat]

Holy sh*t!

[@mmstrux]

They were probably high.

[@xknechtruprechtx]

They came from Britain?

[@sonofstifler1791]

I saw this with my own eyes, an American who told an English man to speak English. My jaw dropped and was left speechless. It's an English accent and language, not American. Even Americans say they speak English.

[@anita6761]

Because American isn't a language.

[@Jus7aguy]

@@anita6761 With the butchering they are doing TO the English language, they seem to be trying to make it one.

[@stephaniebarker9244]

Some American tourists were amazed that The Tower of London was built so close to the Airport.

[@anita6761]

Oh dear The tower of London was standing soooooo many years before airports 😅

[@maryv.7227]

And some American asked in Italy: "we want to visit Venice, at what time does it open?"

[@ABC1701A]

And that the stone age inhabitants built stonehenge so close to a main road.

[@vomfuchs]

🤣

[@AstoranSolaire]

@@ABC1701A To be fair, the druids of the 30th century BC really needed quick access off the through route, so can you really blame them for that one?

[@johnfoord9444]

I'm from NZ and simply love being asked by Americans "Where abouts in England do you come from?" I quite enjoy replying Kazakhstan . . .

[@marianne6876]

I grew up in Dune din........ said correctly (Dun-E-din) apparently even after having been told on the bus they still won't say it correctly.

[@Ryan_Christopher]

You should have said “Kamino,” like where the Clone Troopers from Star Wars were from.

[@lillywildflower]

You should tell them you’re from Middle Earth and you know Frodo 😂. I’m from Western Australia and was asked by an American tourist IN Perth…. Where do I come from. I said Perth. Then he told me we are all from earth. I said, no I didn’t say earth, I said from Perth….. he asked me which planet Perth is on….. he was literally IN the city I am from and didn’t know where it was or that it was on earth

[@susansmiles2242]

@@lillywildflower 🙄🙄🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

[@ireneputzer2072]

That's brilliant. 😂

[@maxbanziger]

This kind of ignorance by Americans is by no means new. A classmate of mine from Switzerland went to California as an exchange student in the 1960s. People asked him whether they used toothpaste in Switzerland and whether they had trains. Switzerland is arguably the country with the best train service.

[@ABC1701A]

Was bad in 1979 when a lass came to our school in NZ, she was 17 and ended up in a class of 13yos because that was the limit of her education - the school was streamed. Worse, not only did she attend an allegedly really good private school but both her parents were university lecturers. The good part was she refused to return to the US with her parents (attended university in NZ and married a local lad, still lives there today) and actually finished her education in NZ working her way up through the school, even if she was in classes with girls 4 years her junior.

[@Aeroxima]

I doubt you know what every country is good on.

[@uwedasler425]

I worked at Frankfurt airport in the 1980s and 1990s, and two things I remember are pretty symptomatic and still crack me up today... 1. The manager of Austrian Airlines had a sign on his door: "Dear Americans, due to organizational requirements, we will no longer answer questions about Koalas and Kangaroos.". 2. An American pilot with over 20 years international experience refused one of my flight plans because the route passed over the German city of Bayreuth. His original words were: "I am not flying civilians over a war zone."

[@Super-Godzilla99]

wtf

[@ireneputzer2072]

1. Yeah, I can see that. Clever way of handling it. 2. Just... wow

[@bevbarry9637]

There was a video going around Australian news this week from a woman who had moved to Australia to see koalas in the wild. After living in Australia for 6 months and not seeing a wild koala she has decided they aren't from Australia at all. 🤦‍♀️

[@drsnova7313]

That Bayreuth one took me a few seconds.

[@rossellarosin]

it took me quite a few minutes before understanding what was wrong with Bayreuth

[@sherlockrobin597]

"wrong side of the war. I'm Scottish"

[@Rhianalanthula]

Sometimes, the lack of punctuation doesn't help.

[@keithkearns93]

Quite funny , in a video talking about thick Americans .

[@freakydeaky1435]

I'm so sorry, have you been to the doctor, maybe they can do something about it?

[@mrorinocobottle9371]

Yeah, basic punctuation please, it helps a lot.

[@reaperoflostsouls4323]

Best bit he even spelt like a true Scot would say it. ..Am Scottish

[@johnp8131]

In slight mittigation, I think many Americans are taught that they can voice their opinion no matter what? Whereas most Europeans will ask for clarification first, when in doubt? Then again, we used to have a saying here which went, "Engage brain before putting your mouth into gear"!

[@cedhome7945]

Ah ha I can answer this one ! It's because they drive automatics and don't know about using a gear change

[@rogerk6180]

A lot of americans seem to have trouble understanding the difference between opinion and fact.

[@johndeljoy8071]

Practically "Think before speak". And ye. Got the same saying in my country.

[@LaraGemini]

And as my father used to say. "you have 2 eyes and 1 mouth. And they should be used in that proportion"

[@jaimetarrasa657]

Isaac Asimov, writer of SF novels but also Science education books, was hired to help to write text books for the Middle East schools. He was suggested to write evolution theory at the same level that creationism. The reason was "It's what people want". He answered "It's not voting, it's about promoting knowledge". They answered "we are a democracy". He resigned. Latter he wrote "The idea is 'My ignorance is worth as much as your knowledge' "

[@anserbauer309]

Ryan, the reason the last one isn't 'weak-sauce' and is in fact a great example of American ignorance, arrogance and overweening self-importance is illustrated by the fact that the Beatles are British, AC/DC is Australian and Nike is the most famous shoe brand on the planet. The assumption that people from other countries are less likely to be aware of these international icons than the average Yank is one of the most fatuous prejudices one can imagine.

[@monicawarner4091]

The USA was never in the Commonwealth Ryan. It was a part of the British Empire before it won its independence. The Commonwealth wasn't formed until 1949.

[@ImaBlack1969]

I was going to say this.☝

[@ffotograffydd]

If Wales doesn’t exist does that mean I can stop paying council tax, water rates, etc, on my imaginary house in Wales?

[@taniakrause9253]

Yes sure and I would like to join in. 😂

[@Lily_The_Pink972]

And ignore the 20mph speed limit!

[@alanmacpherson3225]

Yep and you have to give all your leeks back.

[@ffotograffydd]

@@alanmacpherson3225 I’m allergic to vegetables from the Alliaceae family, so don’t eat them anyway. 😉

[@ffotograffydd]

@@Lily_The_Pink972 Why would I ignore them? They’ve been a godsend in our area. People still speed through the village, but now they’re doing 30 in a 20 zone rather than 40 in a 30 zone, so that’s progress at least.

[@Lola_in_the_Black]

I'm Polish. Once I had to explain to an American that "Polska" is not an alternative slang name for Poland but a POLISH name for our country (she thought that Poland is how every country calls it). And once I had to explain that we don't have polar bears and Poland and North Pole aren't the same nor even close xD Other than that I saw only some stupid discussions in comments, like Americans not believing that other countries don't use dollars or that other countries have different languages (it was pretty shocking to me that not all people realise there are different languages around the world, not English).

[@careytitan9097]

Ask an American what language they speak and they will reply 'American'!

[@MrRwilczek]

I am from Bonn, Germany. There is a Polish restaurant here around the corner that advertises with the sign "Zwischen den Polen" which has a double meaning in German ("Among the Poles" or "Between the poles"). A rather ingenious attempt to confuse American tourists? Are Poles _that_ mean? ;-)

[@BurnCorpoStuff]

Literally why do they think people in the US speak Spanish??

[@anita6761]

Hmm American is definitely not a language 😅😅😅😅

[@irasan77]

omfg 😂

[@peterfromgw4615]

This was part of a conversation I heard during breakfast at a B&B in York, UK. One group of Americans was talking about their recent day trip to Whitby, encouraging the other group to go. When asked what the first group did, that answer was “we saw Captain Cook’s statue”. The response from the second group was “oh, Captain Cook, that was Thomas Cook”. It took all my self control not to blurt out “no, you stupid Yanks, his name was JAMES COOK”….. This is not the first instance for this Aussie to witness something stupid an American said or did while travelling. Ryan, thanks for letting me get this incident “off my chest”. Grüße aus Australien. Tschüss.

[@christinehorsley]

I can’t stop laughing 😂

[@uniquesimulacrum]

Not knowing something isn't stupid. Pretending to know something and act like its obvious and everyone else is stupid for not knowing it, is, where the big stupid begins.

[@silverthumbring]

Like the difference between being ignorant of something because you just do not know, have never had the opportunity to learn or be aware, as opposed to just being "ignorant". I think there's a term "wilfully ignorant" for that. In some of these cases, "arrogantly ignorant" could apply.

[@Seereene1]

My husband in Nigerian and he gets mad at the stupid questions people ask him about Africa. Do you have roads? airplanes? hospitals? etc. etc. OR they ask if he saw lions and giraffes growing up. He grew up in Lagos - a city of 23 million - no!! He never saw a lion until he saw one in an American zoo..smh.

[@BurnCorpoStuff]

Famously social animal the Lion.

[@Bellenickna]

They ask us kiwis if we have indoor plumbing, the internet and KZbin. It’s just shocking how uneducated these people are about anything other than America.

[@UKreactions]

As a South African I can relate, being asked if we have running water or if wild ani,als just roam the streets or being surprised that we know how to speak english

[@gubsak55]

Some years back, it was common to meet American tourists in Copenhagen (Denmark) who were surprised not to see any Polar Bears in the streets. 😢

[@maryv.7227]

These are rude questions I think. If they are really interested in those things they could search information about Africa on line without being so rude. I am Italian and someone asked me if it is true that Italian women don't shave 😂😂😂

[@klarasee806]

What did happen quite regularly in the 70s and 80s to German exchange students in the USA: They were asked if they were from West Germany or East Germany. Most Americans did know that Germany was divided back then, but many Americans obviously were not aware of the fact that something like an exchange student from East Germany in the USA simply did not exist!

[@VirginiaPeden-Harrington-qd5zu]

Do you know the size of the USA? I guarantee that Spanish is indeed a foreign language in places like North Dakota and Maine.

[@michaellucas4873]

I was in London when an American tourist asked me if England and Scotland are in the same country, why do they have different names. I replied that New York and California are in the same country but they have different names, and he just looked baffled.

[@davidberriman5903]

How to confuse someone from the US. Offer them two shovels and tell them to take their pick.

[@charliegould5865]

I’ve found during some of my visits to the US that there are people that know very little about geography outside the state they live in and absolutely nothing about geography outside of America.

[@colinbrown9549]

There is an alarming number who have never been out of the state they were born in, I live in Missori, my wife and I employed a handyman for odd jobs around the house, he was in his sixties and only ever been to 2 states, Missouri and Illinois, the latter of which is about 15 miles away! I have a fairly thick Mancunian accent but some folks insist I speak Australian (never been anywhere close to there)

[@MarieSallaupHalse]

In Norway, so many tourists come to see the midnight sun, and they get so dissapointed, when they find out that the midnight sun, is just the normal sun, that happens to be still up during nighttime. Also, tourists traveling with passanger/cruise ships are surprised when they find out that the crew actually lives onboard, and doesn't go home after each shift.

[@geoffreynolds8835]

That made me laugh so much 🤣😂😊

[@LezDentz]

Tourists in Norway are probably confusing the Midnight Sun with the Northern Lights.

[@Ryan_Christopher]

Given the number of Filipinos and other Asiana in the ship’s crew, did the tourists imagine there was some sort of Filipino/Asian enclave ashore? And what did they imagine the Midnight Sun would look like?

[@MarieSallaupHalse]

@@Ryan_Christopher the ship's crew onboard the ship I worked on was purely Scandinavian, it goes along the Norwegian coast, and has no foreign ports, so legally the crew has to have Norwegian working conditions.

[@mmstrux]

That's probably because of all the songs that mention "Land of the midnight sun" as if it's some magical, mystical place.

[@nicksykes4575]

With the "being on the wrong side in WW2" they finished off by stating they were from Scotland, so they weren't on the wrong side at all. There was another girl from Wales on Tic-Toc, who was accused by an American couple of making up her country of birth, telling her a Whale was an animal, she countered by saying the then Prince Charles was Prince of Wales, they then said "everyone knows he owns all the Whales, so is Prince of Whales.

[@A.k.-47-]

“Tic-toc”?

[@sallyannwheeler6327]

Anfon nhw yma!!!🤛🤛🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@stefanomartello3786]

Well I'm italian. For those who don't know it, in 1943 WWII was ongoing and the civil war also started and alongside that the partisans fought in the german occupied north half of the country. I had been asked a similar question too. It was a "what about your nazi grandparents?" type of thing (clearly from people that had absolutely no idea of what is the difference between fascism and nazism and didn't give a damn either) and I still cant believe the hard time I had trying to explain to theese folks that my grandfather was in his late teens back then (so too young to be part of the army) and that he nonetheless fought against the nazis as a partisan so he wasn't in fact neither fascist nor a nazi

[@geoffreynolds8835]

You could not make it up. They're really thick 😅😂😮😅

[@CROM-on1bz]

@@A.k.-47- Not tic Toc but Toc Toc.. in french = crazy, stupide.

[@jimsound7888]

Many years ago I was visiting relatives in NW America. I took a stroll to a local cafe as needed some caffeine. Waitress heard my English accent. Asked where i was from in England. I said Nottingham. She asked, " do i know Robin Hood" I said yes, he's my great, great, great recurring grand father...........So gullable

[@TTFerdinand]

You must know that John Smith guy, too, then.

[@jimsound7888]

@@TTFerdinand the one with the limp? Sure do

[@pgbrown12084]

When i worked in retail, i had these two high school age girls come in. They asked to get a passport picture made. We engaged in conversation while the picture was being made and i asked where they were going. They said they were going to Washington DC. I thought maybe that was just a stopover on the way to another destination so i asked "oh, so whats the passport for?" The respone? "Washington DC isnt a state so you need a passport to go there." I was literally dumbstruck. I could not formulate the words needed to refute their claim because they said it with such confidence. I closed my mouth and sold them the passport pictures.

[@AnnQlder]

Bahahahaha 😂😂😂😂😂

[@steemlenn8797]

Stupid customers are best customers.

[@susanyork5089]

I live in York U.K. , it’s a city with over 2000 years of history , our jewel is the Minster , a Gothic cathedral that took 250 years to build starting in the 1250s . An American couple stopped me and asked where the big church was ? I said turn around its behind you , “oh that , we thought there might be a bigger one “

[@ZiplineToCompleteIgnorance]

Are you sure? I thought it was the Jorvik Viking Centre which was where I learned that the Romans shared a sponge on a stick. Also they don't have a ride going through your cathedral. Maybe it's the cat trail? 😁

[@helenwood8482]

A high school that teaches no foreign languages is like an elementary school that doesn't teach reading and writing. Spanish isn't even a foreign language in the US.

[@anonymous92126]

I'm Finnish. Last week I had a conversation with an American tourist in a bar while I was out celebrating my birthday and he asked me about some things that were bothering him: "Why is it so bright here at night? Why is it so warm? Where's the snow? I thought it's supposed to be winter and night time all the time here IN THE NORTH POLE." I had to explain to him that while this is indeed Lapland and Santa Claus does reside here - we're in fact NOT in the North Pole... And that this is the Arctic Circle and we have both the polar night and midnight sun here, all four seasons in all their glory. He was very confused, apparently his father had told him that he was here in my city for some flight training at our airbase and had visited Santa Claus's village and seen the northern lights. The poor guy had traveled all the way from the States in the middle of the summer to see the aurora... I ended up buying him a shot of Finnish Salmiak vodka because I felt to sorry for him. He looked very upset. Didn't end up liking the taste of the shot, but they were at least happy to hear that we do have polar bears they can go see in the zoo and were very impressed with how friendly everyone was. Very nice guy, but I just don't understand how little research he had done before deciding to travel all this way.

[@juliewoodman2439]

If I met a visiting American I would be tempted to ask if they had schools in the US.

[@JohnCooper-gm6mn]

They do, it's where they go for shooting practice.

[@juliewoodman2439]

​@@JohnCooper-gm6mn Ouch!

[@awoodward37]

Well, technically, they're more of a child-minding service while their mothers work during the day. (No one knowns where their fathers are.)

[@quantonomy]

Basically not. The graduate schools are good but the entire educational system is pure trash. They have no clue of geography, history, world events.

[@allenmontrasio8962]

Only if you can afford them.

[@stimasti666]

2 things that happened to me: 1) we went to some ruins in Greece and the tour guide showed us some ancient greek writings on walls. The US tourist raised her hand and was like "but how do you know what is written there?" The tour guide said "It's in greek." and the lady "yeah, but how do you read it if its not in english? Where is the english translation?" 2) we were on a tour bus in Scotland, and some americans were talking with the bus drive (the guide) about Christmas. The bus driver "....and then we decorate the tree and-..." The american interrupts to say "Oh wow! You decorate the trees here as well for Christmas?!"... well, it did come from this side of the world, but whatever.

[@GracelessExit]

So I have this theory that the default for Americans isn't any more stupid than anywhere else. It's just that the education system there may be much, much more nationalist propaganda-based than most places and they typically don't teach about the rest of the world. Opinions about the rest of the world seem to be based on the kind of rumour and wild theories you hear in the school playground and are never contradicted by any actual learning unless people seek out the information on their own. If Americans learned about the rest of the world they'd do things like demand the same workers' rights and universal healthcare every other developed country has.

[@Bellenickna]

They are taught that the rest of the world is 💩 and everyone wants to move to America, so be careful if u leave the country as everyone will want to marry u 4 a green card. SMH 🤦‍♀️. U couldn’t pay me to live in America, and being such a violent, volatile country right now it would be terrifying to be stuck there. We have so many Americans trying to move to our country and many now living here permanently. 🎉

[@crank1985]

Top countries with the most propaganda about themselves: North Korea China and Russia USA.

[@mushroomsteve]

"If Americans learned about the rest of the world they'd do things like demand the same workers' rights and universal healthcare every other developed country has." We do demand those things. Our demands just get ignored. Our system is pretty rigged.

[@celticlass8573]

You hit the nail on the head, I think. I've thought this for some time, and kept a lookout since first considering it. 100% they're being conditioned. It's definitely a thing in other countries as well, governments and media want you to think in a certain way, but in the US it's off the charts. 99.99% of ALL maps ever shown in the US, only show the US. Flags are everywhere, including in movies and TV shows. I just watched an episode recently of a show where there was a funeral, and there was no less than FIVE American flags at the funeral. They're also fed false information about things like healthcare, and always say the same thing, that it costs way too much, without having any information to compare, or understanding that Americans who have to pay for health insurance often pay hundreds every month, if they can even afford it. They shout about their country being the most free country in the world, when they know little about the rest of the world, and also never think to learn about it, meanwhile the rest of the developed world can see that they have less freedom in some ways, and can see their human rights and freedoms being chipped away over time...

[@quantonomy]

@@celticlass8573 yes. I lived here in the US and this is exactly what is going on. They are really programmed to be the same.

[@analuisaantunes1973]

I live in a small village in Portugal. An American woman was very shocked when I explained that we didn't have a shopping mall nearby. She asked me where we bought things... she was in my store...

[@SonicCommenter]

The USA would have never been a part of the British Commonwealth, since it wasn't created until 1931. Before that it was still the British Empire.

[@NinoMit87]

I met an US tourist in Belgium who thought Amsterdam (where I am from) was a country and not a city.

[@baronmeduse]

A group of tourists here in Utrecht showed me a map and asked me where the Rijksmuseum is. They even stepped out of the train in Utrecht CS (with a massive sign saying 'Utrecht Centraal Station') and walked to the museumkwartier. Unbelievable.

[@RenghisKhan]

I was on Coruscant in a Star Wars game when an American player asked me where I was from. I told him and he said he heard about 'the Netherlands' and that it was near Amsterdam. Technically speaking, he was kinda right.... 😂

[@stevenvanhulle7242]

Ah, Belgium! The capital of Brussels! 🙂

[@user-bi3ky6nv2k]

Good. They did not think it was one of the Dams in USA.

[@marcromain64]

@@stevenvanhulle7242 "Belgium is a beautiful city." - Donald Trump, 2016

[@t.a.k.palfrey3882]

When my then 10-yr old son began at his new school in DC at the start of our 6-year sojourn in the US, he returned on Friday afternoon and announced, loudly, as he entered the kitchen, "Daaaaad! Many of the boys in my class have had a really bad deal from God." A bit surprised at his outburst, I asked him why on Earth he'd say such a thing. With a wicked smile, he replied, "Because these boys were clearly created with just one brain cell to share between them." Smarty pants....😂

[@lethfuil]

Things that happened.

[@dannygjk]

wtf is he trying to start another world war? 😂

[@quantonomy]

So glad I grew up in Europe.

[@oldbill6396]

I`m English, with an interest in American politics, so I watch a number of KZbin channels on the subject. I`ve been somewhat annoyed recently by remarks made by some Americans in the comments section. They state that the UK is a dictatorship, because we are ruled over by a monarch and therefore have no rights or freedoms. They don`t seem to know that we have an elected government and a parliament which passes laws.

[@dizzlery3628]

About 12 years agosome of my friends and me flew to Vegas for a week. We are all Germans but from different regions. I am from Lower Saxony, one guy was from NRW and two were from Bavaria. The two Bavarians have a noticable accent when speaking German. Me and the other guy understood them without problems because we were used to it. The two Bavarians fell into a discution about women (no big deal and not worth explaining) and they fell into the Bavarian dialect. For me and the other guy it wasnt a problem because, you guessed it, we were used to it and understood most of it. An american guy stops by and asked where we were from because he couldnt understand what "language" the Bavarians were speaking. I told him we were from Germany and he laughed very arrogant and said "Hahaha!Guten Tag! Sauerkraut Bratwurst und auf Wiedersehen!!!" We four flooded him with quite fluent english and at first he was shocked. The he said "I didnt know Hitler teaches you American" We flooded him again telling him that the language is "English" not "American" and that Hitler is dead since 1945 and if he has no idea what he is talking about he should shut up and go. He was so shocked that he ran away and yellling "The Nazis are coming!"

[@SatumangoTheGreat]

😂 but WTF?

[@patbrown8117]

The ironic thing about your first comment re squirrels is that the grey squirrel seen everywhere here in Britain was introduced to the UK from the USA. Being an alien species, if anyone, say, rehabilitates an injured squirrel, it is illegal to release it. They are shot as pests (and are good to eat). They have decimated the UK's native red squirrel population.

[@gchecosse]

In Scotland at least, this is also technically true for Rabbits, as they were introduced by the Norman's so are not native and it is forbidden to release them.

[@jeanettehuggins4964]

​@@gchecosse Those rabbits have traveled a long way..The British brought them to Australia..but we won't complain. They kept a lot of people from being hungry during the depression..underground mutton.

[@Ozzpot]

There's nothing worse than when extreme stupidity or ignorance is paired with an equal level of confidence. Unfortunately, we see a lot of that in the era of social media. Before that though, it was the American tourist that provided the best example. And the best example in my experience was an American that sat down next to me on the edge of a fountain in London, and went something like this: He asked me how we all speak such good American here. I told him it's not called American, it's called English, and this is where it's from. He said no it's not. I said yes it is. And that a more appropriate question would be how come you speak such good English. He looked at me blankly. I said you only speak English because your country grew from a British colony. He said he "majored in history" and what I'd been told was completely wrong. That it was an Italian colony because Christopher Columbus founded America in 1892 and he was Italian. I said 1892? He said yeah. I asked him what the war of Independence was about. He didn't know. What the Boston Tea party was about. He didn't know. Why Americans don't speak Italian. He said because they developed their own language; American. An American history major right there folks. When he got up and left, I heard him say to himself "These guys are so dumb".

[@Jill-mh2wn]

And you went off and checked out what `Majored in History` involved and he went off saying " USA! USA! USA!"🤣

[@ShizuruNakatsu]

Wow. I'm from Ireland, and I would have known more American history than him by the time I was 6. When did he think the declaration of independence was signed? When did he think the American civil war happened? When did he think the period known as the wild west happened? In the 1950s?

[@Jill-mh2wn]

@@ShizuruNakatsu Easy answer to your questions . He doesn`t think.

[@ShizuruNakatsu]

@@Jill-mh2wn Yeah but, even surface level thinking would make this obvious. If Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1892, and even if the colonies were set up immediately after, and the war of Independence happened shortly after... Let's say The United States of America was established as an independent country by 1920. So George Washington was president in the 1920s. What about Lincoln? 2000s?

[@Jill-mh2wn]

@@ShizuruNakatsu My reply was very glib ,I admit. The illogicality is so obvious that it is not really worth wasting one brain cell trying to fathom out what he thought.

[@irreverend_]

You have grey squirrels (as do we now unfortunately) but you don't have the smaller red squirrels that are indigenous to Europe. They still look and move nothing like a rabbit though

[@MrGlennJohnsen]

When I visited LA around 10 years ago I was asked by the taxi driver if Norway was freezing cold, when I told him it was summer and we had mid 70's farenheit in the summers he laughed and told me I was a liar because we have polar bears and reindeer.

[@richardhockey8442]

The train to Asgard, stops at Mt. Olympus, Atlantis, Hades and Wakanda along the way

[@stevenvanhulle7242]

Not accurate. Only the S-trains stop at Hades.

[@hannesmayer3716]

Or you take the direct Uber called Bifröst...

[@Flossie710]

Alterntively you can climb up Yggdrasill, as long as you avoid Ratatoskr

[@ritabecker5625]

notto forget walhalla

[@Bellenickna]

Hogwarts stop this line?

[@Superfluous.]

The ability the rest of the world has to adapt to US tourists is honestly impressive. It's the confidence in their ignorance that gets everyone. It's like arguing or dealing with someone who says 3+3x3 is 18 instead of 12.

[@Ryan_Christopher]

You know I completely zoned-out in grade school when the teacher talked about the Math Order of Operations and I persisted calculating Sequentially-as-Written well into the Quarterly Exams. Even the teacher reminding us “My Dear Aunt Sally” during tests meant absolutely nothing to me. I almost flunked an entire school year due to failures in Algebra. I still have struggles with Math despite earning an A.S. degree after my B.A. I imagine you’ve met people who likewise were not paying any attention when MDAS was taught.

[@jaimetarrasa657]

And they are right. Use parenthesis, without them the operand precedence is debatable.

[@rossellarosin]

@@jaimetarrasa657 it's not debatable. But indeed it's better to use parentheses to avoid discussions with people who would debate it even if they are wrong.

[@paulf1734]

At work one of my American colleagues thought New Zealand and South Africa was part of Europe. 🤭

[@clothilde1623]

“Had an American ask me if I was ashamed of my grandpas actions during ww2 and how I felt about my family being on the wrong side of the war - am Scottish” Not that difficult to figure out mate, they just missed out a space/some punctuation. The Scots were obviously in the British army (being British and all) and so were part of the allies. Which makes the question incredibly dumb, unless you wanted the Nazis to win.

[@RobertHeslop]

I literally had an American say to me "oh wow, you British people speak English really well", and I literally just went "I know, it's our language that we gave to you...?"

[@vallejomach6721]

I'd have said 'keep practicing and eventually you'll get the hang of it as well'

[@TheFiown]

Sitting in a restaurant in Paris three American ladies asked for three 'real' coffees. The waiter gave them three expressos, normal 'real' coffee in France. They began complaining so I told the waiter the put each coffee in a large cup, fill it with hot water and serve them. He was shocked 'that's disgusting' he said. When he took them the watered down coffees they said 'now THAT'S a real coffee' ! I then told him that everytime he heard an American accent, or generally rude tourist, just give them that.

[@vladd6787]

I'm surprised a French waiter hadn't heard of an Americano, the term has been around since at least the fifties.

[@TheFiown]

@@vladd6787 Yes an Americano is a long coffee but this was a looooooooooooong coffee. The first time I went to NY I ordered a coffee and when it arrived I could see the bottom of the cup through the coffee, I was amazed but I didn't get upset I just asked what other coffees they had and they proposed an expresso. This was in the late 90's. A friend in NY drinks about 6 of these long long coffees a day, for me I just don't get it.

[@carlamartins9714]

@@vladd6787 Has been around where? Not in France, or Portugal or other European countries that I know lol Maybe only at Starbucks ...

[@tinaunderhill5412]

*espresso

[@ectophyllaalba6003]

​@@vladd6787 Maybe the waiter didn't pick the accents. Not everybody know how to differentiate English accent, than a American especially a French ear. Or maybe he just didn't think about it, or maybe he was annoyed by the arrogance and gives them a normal coffee on purpose. French are not very fond of that kind of comportment.

[@paulwright9749]

Oh don’t worry Ryan, here in the U.K. most people below the age of 30 are thick as a bucket of rocks!

[@radiobez]

I have had many incidents of US tourists trying to spend UK Sterling here, in the Republic of Ireland. Many seem convinced that Ireland is part of the UK. This does not go down well with us Irish.

[@DoomsdayR3sistance]

The UK use to have bears but like in many parts of Europe, Humans wiped them out. There are obviously still bears in Europe however, bears do not care about human defined continental or country borders, they are just going to be a bear.

[@paha4209]

Yup you hear about a bear here in Germany or Austria every couple of years. They are rare in western europe but can show up.

[@Muck006]

@@paha4209 ... and sadly some of them also get shot, instead of letting them eat some stupid humans.

[@robertabarnhart6240]

@@paha4209 Interesting! Here in the US, you can pretty much assume that wooded areas of any substantial size have a decent population of bears and other wildlife. Sometimes they wander into the suburbs and have to be relocated by Animal Control.

[@paha4209]

@@robertabarnhart6240 I believe there are much more bears in Eastern Europe since they haven't killed all the bears living there like we did. Same goes for wolves although there is a decent population of wolves again in Germany

[@amygone2pot]

Even if the person they were speaking to was old enough to be sent to a concentration camp, would ANYONE seriously ask such a question? Where are the boundaries? So offensive.

[@Super-Godzilla99]

us americans are often seen jump around and making fun when they are at the ww2 memorial in berlin with no respect for where they are. so yeah many of them don`t have any respect for anything other then the usa itself. and they call germans rude when they are much worse most of the time everywhere they go.

[@Kitsune1989]

You would be suprised what people shitty questions ppl ask. Youd think common sense would say not to touch certain subjects with a 10ft pole but.... Ex-infantry, the number of times I've been asked how many people I killed like I kept count or something. I just started telling ppl I was the cook to avoid questions like that. Nobody asks the cook if they've killed anyone, unless they're implying something entirely different.

[@ABC1701A]

@@Kitsune1989Well my husband maintains their cooks were certainly trying - example they routinely served cofftea [literally mixing the two together] and similar combinations like that. Mind you, that was in the 80s and the short time I spent on a naval base I thought the food was really good - but then navy isn't army. This was in NZ

[@andyfettes6000]

Im English and when living in Indiana I was asked how come i spoke English so well by my adult neighbour !?!?

[@davidholdsworth1141]

Rule Number 1: Never ask an American for directions.

[@wobaguk]

Asgard is the magical city where Thor lives. Its a couple of stops before Wakanda.

[@patcyconnolly]

Right even if you don't know Norse mythology. Most people have heard or seen the MCU, surely.

[@wietholdtbuhl6168]

Song from Rammstein ( Zeit ) you find the 3 😮 cool Video

[@luthien3565]

@wobaguk great! you won the joke of the day! 🤣

[@CROM-on1bz]

@@luthien3565 Isn't it right near Madagascar 2?

[@embreis2257]

I think to get to Wakanda you first have to pass by Atlantis.

[@Jeni10]

Mont Saint Michel is an island of rock in France, where the Benedictine monks built an Abbey and they lived there for a thousand years. In French, the name Michel means Michael. It’s pronounced much the same as Michelle. Michel (m), Michelle (f)

[@leohickey4953]

...and it's so beautiful, the locals couldn't resist attempting to build a replica across the water on the Cornish side and giving that to the monks too. Not as good, but still charming in its own way.

[@user-ol8fn2dy8h]

And St Michael's Mount is in Cornwall and is very similar

[@hanserikkratholmrasmussen6623]

Beautiful place.

[@adelia988]

Been to both

[@markharris1125]

It's MICKLE. Don't argue with the American.

[@Vox-Multis]

Bears obviously weren't imported to Europe on purpose. They had stowed away on the American ships that first discovered England.

[@SatumangoTheGreat]

😂 I now have a mental image of a huge bear trying not to be noticed in the hold of a ship.

[@anasumic7497]

Dubrovnik, Croatia... my friend who is a tour guide took American tourists to the places where the series "Game of Thrones" was filmed. when they got to the end a lady asked "where do you store the walls at the end of the season"...wtf?

[@PedroConejo1939]

The nation that came up with the concept of 'alternative facts' is always going to embarrass itself bigly when presented with actual facts. And bless their little cotton socks, they will _never_ back down.

[@ritabecker5625]

bigly 😆😆😆 trump expression

[@Dutchbelg3]

The item about the brown bears was not about if bears are indigenous in Europe but the comment of this one American to the other: There were none until we imported them. Like the Americans are the managers of the whole world ;-) 😛

[@Thurgosh_OG]

A good example of that 'US Ignorant Arrogance'.

[@AH-li7ef]

On the other hand, the spread of animals takes place, in the 1930s and 1940s American Finns from Minnesota donated about a dozen white-tailed deer to Finland, and now there are about 100,000 of them in Finland.

[@slake9727]

Wait'll they learn where horses came from...

[@Ryan_Christopher]

@@slake9727Well horses did evolve in North America but went extinct about 10,000 years ago and had to be reintroduced from Europe during the Colonizations.

[@billmmckelvie5188]

Regarding the Norwegian cafeteria , the American was hoping to see the Swedish chef. They could have really milked that one and got one of their colleagues to act out a scene from the Muppets.😂

[@MrXstacey]

Working bar in Newfoundland, bar is backed up 3 people deep all around. A table of 15 Americans come up to pay their bills separately. One has cash. I explain exchange rate is 10%. Can see the wheels rolling around in his head. I explain so you give me $30, I’ll treat it as $33 and give you your change in Canadian money. He said But I don’t like Canadian money. Only time in 2 decades of customer service I ever snapped at a customer. I said you’re not in Kansas anymore there Toto, I can go serve everyone else and come back to you if you’d prefer.

[@margiegurner2694]

Next episode...Ryan reads the comments from these 2 episodes! 😂😂😂

[@johnpublicprofile6261]

"The Biggest Obstacle To Learning Is KNOWING" Poor education is only the second biggest problem in the USA.

[@0Clewi0]

But it can't get to the point that people think 9/11 happened before the end of ww2

[@SIS3W3N]

The US education system is functioning precisely as intended, keeping the electorate ignorant and expanding the class divide.

[@marcromain64]

@@0Clewi0 There were actually two 9/11s. Both took place in the Americas, resulted in thousands of deaths, and in both cases a devious terrorist organization was behind it. Once it was Al-Qaeda in 2001 and once it was the CIA in 1973.

[@gerardflynn7382]

​@@0Clewi0Also, what happened on the 9th of November?

[@jacobreisser8034]

The Yanks won't have a clue what your question means. 😊

[@melw5725]

Your pain is visible. I am sorry for you realizing that a combination of a bad education system, little exposure to information from outside of the country and an extreme confidence really is a recipe for borderline dangerous ignorance. I guess the entire world wishes a country with that military and economic capacity had more educated citizens.

[@colinr1960]

USA was never in the British Commonwealth, made up of countries that were once colonies, but… From 1776 to 1780 the words "State of Massachusetts Bay" appeared on the top of all acts and resolves. In 1780, the Massachusetts Constitution went into effect. Part Two of the Constitution, under the heading "Frame of Government" states: "that the people ... form themselves into a free, sovereign, and independent body politic, or state by the name of The Commonwealth of Massachusetts." Virginia (on June 29, 1776) and Pennsylvania (on September 25, 1776) adopted Constitutions which called their respective states commonwealths. Kentucky is also called a commonwealth in its full official state name (and in the Third Kentucky Constitution of 1850).

[@kirstenjakobsen1651]

Asgard is where Odin and Thor lives!

[@CROM-on1bz]

And some American tourists😂😂

[@gerardflynn7382]

😮 In fantasy world of course.

[@testerpt5]

funny enough Thors grandmother lives in Portugal. (Thor and Odin are not a mord exclusive, pre-christianty Portugal had as main Godeas Thors grandmother, not sure if Odins mother)

[@peterfromgw4615]

But Chris Hemsworth lives in Byron Bay (in Australia)….ha ha. Just wanted to stick with the current theme. Grüße aus Australien.

[@AKAsubtor]

My mate use to work up in the capitol of Scotlant. In Edinburgh castle many moons ago... An American tourist walked up and asked him... Why did they build a castle on top of a train station. We had a good laugh about it...🤣

[@gordonmilligan8847]

Ask if they'd visited Arthur's Seat - it's in the station waiting room at Waverley 😬

[@AKAsubtor]

@@gordonmilligan8847

[@bernadettelanders7306]

We have an Arthur’s Seat and Waverley here in Victoria Australia. I was born a Stuart, my ancestors not that far back born Glasgow Scotland. Must have a look at your pics of Arthur’s Seat and Waverley 😊

[@Bethi4WFH]

@@bernadettelanders7306Better still......visit!

[@bernadettelanders7306]

@@Bethi4WFH I should, but it’s soooo far away lol. My sister is heading to the UK in a few months starting of in England re our family history - wouldn’t surprise me if she wandered up north, that’d be fantastic. I’ll let her do all the travelling, pic taking as and family history, she’s been doing it for decades. A red headed Mary could be heading your way lol 😊

[@mmmizery]

"wrong side of the war, I am Scottish"

[@zbijacz07muly]

You need bears to "bears arms"😂 no bears in europe no arms

[@darkIkarus]

The problem isn't that they don't know that much from the "outside world" but the people mentioned in the comments mostly feel like they're still right and defend their opinion even when they're completely wrong. That's, as far as I see, a typical American trait.

[@LaraGemini]

Every country has people who don't like to be wrong ( or as they see it "humiliated" ) But the US seems to have a higher than average amount of these sorts of people!

[@NONAME-bg1kt]

i was on a beach with friends and some americans came up to us and asked us how many stars are between the earth and the moon...

[@poetjenoetje]

Hahaha well in my country Belgium there are equally stupid ppl. Someone asked once where the stars go during the day. 🤣🤣🤣

[@catherinewilliams3850]

I'm from S.Wales UK, I worked in a china shop in our local town from 1978 - 1988. We used to have a lot of tour coaches stopping outside, on one occasion, I was serving two American ladies, I'd guess in their 60's, when one suddenly said ' your not Welsh are you ? I replied 'I am and my grandparents were Welsh speaking' she replied crossly 'well you don't sound Welsh'! Hardly anyone in our town sounds Welsh except for the farming familys in the surrounding area, they should have gone on a North Wales tour if they wanted Welsh, then they'd probably complain that people were speaking a foreign language.😄

[@amandajburke9976]

I’ve got so many crazy travel stories about Americans: 1. Them: Yelling at me, “you are NOT Australian”. I am Australian. 2. Them: I am Australian. Me: Which city? Them: California. 3. Them: There is no country named Georgia, it only exists in the USA. 4. The war in Ukraine is fake. 5. Do Australians speak English? 6. Them: I’m an actor / professional sportsman / CIA agent / billionaire (take your pick, all lies of course). 7. Only the poor and homeless take public transport. I could go on…..

[@cedhome7945]

True, just how dumb are the ones that don't get a passport or visa ?

[@SIS3W3N]

@@cedhome7945 We're smart enough to not waste money on recreational travel overseas while our friends and family struggle to pay the bills. How dumb are the Europeans who can't grasp that intercontinental travel isn't practical for people living paycheck to paycheck?

[@jackwaycombe]

I had an American couple tell me they never used public transport back home, other than cabs or airlines. Apparently they "let too many poor people on those things!"

[@SIS3W3N]

@@cedhome7945 Smart enough not to waste money on trivialities while living paycheck to paycheck.

[@Stinfoxc]

Number 4 - name just about anything and there'll be people who think it's "fake". Some people seriously have the IQ of an earthworm.

[@strictlyonvacation8860]

The bear thing, looks like the American did not know the difference between import and export too.

[@Orion3741]

Hello Ryan. I was busy washing dishes while listening to this HILARIOUS clip. The people asking those questions are not suffering from ignorance. The level of questions asked puts these fine specimens in a whole new bracket : idiocy. I enjoyed your ( shocked/resigned ) reaction to the questions. Yours truly hasn't laughed this much in a while...

[@charlesbullghost5491]

Coming through the middle east region. Egypt is the very first step into Africa. My great inspiring message is out again! Have a great fabulous wonderful day.😀

[@Kyoame_]

About the language courses in the spanish post: Most places in spain have another language. For example, I'm basque, north part of the country. In school we can choose to either learn everything in basque, everything in spanish or a mixture. In any case, you will still have your spanish language class, basque language class and english class. Some schools even offer french and german or some other languages. There is people here that speaks 6 or 7 languages and most people, specially the younger ones, will speak 3 of them.

[@davidioanhedges]

I suspected that most Spanish school taught Spanish and English at least, good to hear they also teach Basque in the North

[@Kyoame_]

​@@davidioanhedges Dependint the autonomous comunity you can have different co-official languages. Basque in the Basque Country and Navarra, catalan in Catalunya, Valencia and Balear islands, etc. Not everyone has another language, but half of the country more or less has it.

[@missharry5727]

I would love to learn Basque. The idea of a language with no known affinities....... Every other language but one (Hebrew) that I have ever had to do with is on Indo-European origin: French, German, Latin, Italian, Spanish, Ancient Greek. It would be challenging.

[@Kyoame_]

@@missharry5727 as far as I can tell, one of the biggest issues for foreigners is the pronunciation. The grammar can be annoying, but there is a logic behind the madness. Also, there is the fact that even being such an "small" language, you have 8 total dialects plus the mixture that lot of speakers make. And lot of people mixes spanish while using basque for some words ^^U But if you find a way to learn it, I can say that it is one of the most beautiful languages I speak.

[@themusiqfreak]

I think the whole 'dumb american' stereotype stems from not just encountering people that know nothing about other cultures, customs etc. It's the blatant refusal to admit that they don't know something and let someone else correct them and instead making up some alternative fact/repeating some misinformation. I will however give the benefit of doubt to the Asgard person, they're in a foreign country and probably pronounced a legitimate Norwegian place incorrectly.

[@Sharon-bo2se]

Probably watched the Avengers movies. Thor and Loki came from Asgard.

[@LadyDragonbane]

It's a possibility... There is a place called Åsgårdstrand

[@marcgyver677]

@@LadyDragonbane Sure thing... just clutch at that last straw!

[@CMOT101]

No, they obviously watched some Marvel movies and that Asgard is real

[@tristanridley1601]

Gotta give benefit of the doubt when you can. There's other times you just have to take the L.

[@astralau8762]

Love your content Ryan, always puts a smile on my dial! 😃

[@user-xu9uj4us3f]

The problem with America as I see it is the fact that all media outlets are controlled by big business. Big Businesses that want Americans to believe that they live in the best place on the planet, because if they don't portray that, they will lose business. The TV channels are a classic, especially the news channels, which are again controlled by business/ politicians. Whereas in Europe, the TV channels especially are independent and have to abide by a code of conduct that guarantees impartiality. News channels that do not comply with the impartiality rules are banned or fall foul of the regulators. In this way, people in Europe and the UK get to see what goes on in the rest of the world and ask questions about the rest of the world. Europe and the UK do not live inside the American bubble, we are outside and watching what appears to be a very introverted nation living inside the bubble.

[@Morris1000100]

I met an American guy in Barcelona, by chance, we had some food and some beers, a nice chat, and he was an educated, nice, decent guy, a traveller and a great ambassador for the USA and I was very glad to have met him, so, Ryan, don't be too hard on your fellow countrymen.

[@NormyTres]

Guys like that aren't as entertaining on KZbin, but it's good to balance things up to remember there are some very smart Americans 😊

[@reinhardkkoehler]

yeah, met someone like that on a train trip from Lisbon to Madrid. And some people are really smart.

[@giovannasatta6918]

Una mosca bianca😂😂

[@bryanduncan1640]

@Morris1000100 - Oh, so you met him as well? We must be talking about the same person as I’ve never heard of another with the attributes you mention.

[@Morris1000100]

@@bryanduncan1640 😂

[@Dimcle]

I once had an American tell me that Pearl Harbor was in San Francisco. She insisted that, as a "foreigner", I didn't know what I was talking about when I said it's in Hawaii. In London, on a driving holiday, an American couple were complaining about having to drive "on the wrong side of the road". As a Canadian, I agreed that it could be difficult. The response... "But you Canadians should have no problem because you also drive "on the wrong side of the road". I could go on, but you get the drift None of these posts surprise me.

[@dsludge8217]

You guys need to drop this "automatically becoming an adult after staying alive for 21 years" thing and replace it with a set of tests and examinations that you have to pass in order to graduate to adulthood. Same thing with driving.

[@Fireguy97]

When I was working at Logan Airport in Boston I was asked (by a group of Frenchman that just disembarked from a Paris flight) for the fastest route to get to Los Angeles. At the time was 2 o'clock, (afternoon) they had an 8 pm dinner appointment in Los Angeles. They were about to rent a car for the trip. They couldn't understand that it was a four day trip, not a four hour trip. They couldn't grasp the size of the United States compared to the size of European countries. They didn't rent a car.

[@nubbypk]

I had family in the USA and visited regularly for years. It always amazed me how many people, when finding out that I'm English, would ask me "Do you know the Queen?". I just used to say, "yeah, she's a nice lady". They then would ask me where in England I lived. When I told them I would be met by a blank face, so I just said "near London"

[@bryanduncan1640]

@nubbypk - I’ve had that; do you know the Queen, where do you live? (Just say London, it’s easier), whereabouts in Nottinghamshire did Robin Hood live? Try telling a Yank that Robin Hood and King Arthur were fictional………………!!!!! See the disbelieving look in their eyes when you compare the distance from London to, say, Edinburgh with NY to Chicago!

[@miztazed]

Yeah it is hard for some US citicens that people are able to speak other languages than English. Also when I say that not only the USA is "America". Canada is America, Mexico is America, Brazil is America, Argentina is America they are mindblowing.

[@riel4553]

I'm tempted to ask random 'Americans' if they know why it's called América.

[@manueltapia1859]

Yes they are really surprised when I speak english and when I Say I'm from northern México usually say if I'm mexican shouldn't speak spanish sigh 😮

[@lorrainehinchliffe5371]

My pet peeve is people from the States usurping all of The Americas as if no one else lives in North, South or Central America.

[@michaausleipzig]

Yeah, a dead sure way to get americans angry is to tell them that their country doesn't have a name but only a designation. And a misleading one at that. A correct designation would be "United States of a part of North America". Or they could come up with a simple name for their country. Like pretty much every other country... The UK is also a designation, but at least a correct one... 😅

[@riel4553]

@@lorrainehinchliffe5371 Thiiiiis That's how we get people saying 'Columbus never landed in America'

[@TheAussieLeo]

This video needs to be a part of part 3 >.

[@micheledix2616]

Love your 'new' studio in the playroom, Ryan

[@PeleRana-pp6zc]

The commonwealth was created in 1926. America has never been a part of the commonwealth. America gained its independence from Britain in 1776, long before the Commonwealth was created.

[@AussieFossil]

The USA declared Independence in 1776, but didn't get it until 1783 :)

[@damyr]

I wonder how the world would look like if the US never gained their independence. I assume it would be a very different place. We will never know...

[@user-xi6nk4xs4s]

@@AussieFossil I agree, but who decides that a country "gets" independence? Murky territory and the source of many disputes.

[@AussieFossil]

@@user-xi6nk4xs4s Oh, don't worry, I know :)

[@gio-oz8gf]

@@user-xi6nk4xs4s America wasn't a country back then, it was a series of British colonies and the people were British citizens/subjects.